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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1907
Page
2
Oxford residents share visits and business with Oxford merchants. Edna Farmer and Clara Wright head to a ShPA convention in Montgomery, while J B McClurkin expands his pasture near Oxford Lake. Local deaths, church talks, council actions, and a farmers union meeting are reported with multiple local names and places.
A western city lawyer pockets a $25 000 fee after guaranteeing a judgment proof claim against a business client. He seeks a wife, but the father reveals the client owes him 25 000. A telegram shows the slick lawyer has supposedly fixed the case, but the suitor ends up winning the hand in a humorous twist.
Eva and Katharine discuss a young man in playful terms with a sharp bet about money and a possible proposal. Katharine treats him like a pack of cards and warns she will cut him if he lacks wealth.
A Welsh baronet of William IV era writes an admission order to the Doorkeeper of the House of Commons. The recipient notices two letter transpositions in keeper and commons, but the baronet dismisses it, trusting the doorkeeper will correct the error.
A Tale of Red Tape notes M. Roger Cavailhon a young French gentleman rider drawn for conscription for one year. He requested cavalry duty citing his horsemanship but the military council of revision refused since one year would not allow him time to learn to ride.
A publishable excerpt emphasizes boys learning to hit the bright spot with a rire and being prepared for conflict. It argues familiarity with guns boats water and wild woods makes them versatile and valuable off city life. The piece notes a father denying consent to romance and sketches a trial of persistence and pursuit.
Excerpts recount Longfellow dining with Dominican friars at San Clemente and Archbishop Manning, Italian dishes and wine, a humorous Inquisitor anecdote, followed by Lowell hosting Thackeray at a late supper. The tone mirrors intimate literary letters and social salons.
Letters quoted by Mr Percival Bickerstaffe show a plumber and gas fitter claiming noble birth and a city clerk asserting high birth. Both express pride in lineage and the desire for social status despite their actual station. The interview highlights social climbing and identity in a mood of satire.
Anatomists describe a method to separate skull bones by filling the skull with beans and soaking in water. The beans swell and rupture the sutures, revealing a force measured by Grebaut at five atmospheres, comparable to boiler pressure in steam engines.
Professor Vamburg the Hungarian orientalist was in Shiraz during a devastating quake. Homes toppled and hills split as people wailed. Two fanatical priests claimed foreigners caused the disaster, sparking a frightened rush on the professor’s lodging until adjacent buildings collapsed, forcing his escape.
A future dress millennium brings comfort and style for every woman with easy walking fit and a pocket for her purse. The forecast credits elementary training in Indicuity comeliness and common sense as the path to this ideal.
Mrs Victor A Beaucaire of Chicago Illinois a Hull House Women’s Club member suffered a severe cold and lung trouble after exposure to bad weather. She attributes marked improvement to Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey noting restored color and greater ambition and recommends it to friends. May 4 1906 Chicago Illinois.
An advertisement touts Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey as a safe tonic for health and heart strength. It claims fifty years of purity, warns against other medicines, and directs buyers to seek the genuine product with the Old Chemist trade mark and intact seal. It offers a free medical booklet from the Rochester, New York company.
A simple in dark room experiment uses a steady gaze on an incandescent light then extinguishing it to produce a persistent image. The afterimage appears red then purple and blue, moving right before fading, lasting up to five minutes or more with lingering faint images after turning on the light.
The New York Globe reports a Columbia University chapel arch was widened after a notably fat visitor became wedged in it. Builders sacrificed symmetry to practicality, ensuring extra width without compromising one side’s balance.
A Carolina governor, a farmer by life, arrived in the capital to find officials with wives. His wife had never seen a steamboat or railroad and refused to go. He learned Melinda would not ride the train, then ordered his brother to blindfold her and back her onto the train.
In a Dublin performance Miss Mabel Love played the title role. As she entered to visit her grandmother in bed a child in the gallery cried Stop, stop It isn t your grandmother It s a wolf The house erupted in applause and laughter at the innocent alarm for the girl in the red hood.
In Euleton April 2 notes say cotton seed planting is underway with some locals joking they are early sooner. the scribe claims to be the true sooner this season. Planting began Feb 28 and emerged March 23 with a good stand. Rev G W Allen moved into a new home. droughty ground begs for rain as Sidney Crowder from Anniston moves to a local farm to spend the year.
Northbound train schedule lists Rome, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Piedmont routes with departure and arrival times including 2:32, 8:27, 7:55 pm, 9:53 am, 6:27 pm, 2:47 am, 7:32 am, 10:07 am, 4:47 pm, 10:02 pm, 1:17 pm, 8:53 pm.
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